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Lincoln Project Goes There: Asks ‘What Does Ghislaine Maxwell Have on Trump?’

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We can’t prove anything at this point. No media outlet can, though some have heard rumors (Hell, we have heard rumors), but setting aside all of it, it is difficult to believe that Ghislaine Maxwell couldn’t testify about something, of some kind, that would embarrass Trump. Perhaps nothing that would “end” his run, but embarrass him and hurt him, nonetheless. We can’t know and can’t responsibly report it as a sure thing.

What we can report is that anti-Trump PACs can at least ask the questions which should embarrass Trump, while simply pointing to his answer in a press conference. It is almost too easy, in a disgusting way.

We have previously reported on the Lincoln Project’s first Ghislaine Maxwell ad. It was devastating. They have made a second ad that is different, and certainly more daring. The ad uses Trump’s treatment of women reporters – how verbally abusive he is to reporters, including the haunting (even to a man) “Easy, just nice and easy, relax” in a voice that still sends shivers down the spine of every caring normal American … it just sounds like something that’s been said before in a sinister way.

It is just one of many clips in which Trump has verbally abused women reporters, all juxtaposed against – perhaps – Trump’s softest, most sincere, well wishes expressed as president. And then they go there: Boom, they ask outright “What does Ghislaine Maxwell have on Trump?” And then say it; “America deserves to know.”

The comments were ferocious:

There is one concern that deserves mention in any reporting. The liberal side of spectrum presumes that she is going to sing to bury Trump, and get a good deal. This doesn’t make any sense with Trump and Barr in power. She would far more likely get a “good deal” if she accused nothing but prominent Democrats and lied about Trump. Trump could say she deserves a “full pardon” for her bravery in taking down so many powerful people. A full pardon would ensure that he never has to worry about her testifying against him.

But it better happen fast. There is no way she’ll be tried before the election, or January 21st. So if she’s going to make the deal for a pardon (which is necessary to keep her from being prosecuted for something else down the road) Trump will need her to do it fast, and take the political hit – because there will be a huge hit, no one will believe it. But it wouldn’t matter in Barr’s DOJ.

He might well have been signaling her. “I wish her well,” because he acknowledges he knows her, and still “wishes her well.” It might be a signal. Be good and I’ll “wish you well.” A president is supposed to say “I don’t comment on ongoing investigations or prosecutions,” OR, “I want justice and her prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”

So the questions must be asked now. What does she have on him, which is why the L.P. is “going there.”

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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